Holding a grudge is a fatal flaw.

You're cute when you're worried, your eyebrows get all scrunched together.

Hestia shook her head. "I am here because when all else fails, when all the other mighty gods have gone off to war, I am all that's left. Home. Hearth. I am the last Olympian

And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.

The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.

Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.

Erre es korakas, Blinky!" Dionysus cursed. "I will have your soul!

It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll.

I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.

We need a shroud. A shroud for the son of Hermes.

I don't write to be understood

The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

There is hardly anything more confusing than a really strong-willed woman and when you are surrounded by two of them in the midst of trying to save the world, it really adds to some drama!

I'm 100 percent clean. I'm doing this off of nuts and bananas.

In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics?

I have faith the men and women of the Coast Guard will immediately rise to the challenge and see the people hit by Katrina through until the storm has truly calmed.

I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors.

Still, you tend to believe what you always believed, think what you always thought, expect what you always expected

You can tell a good ruined lens, right from the get-go.... That’s the kind of lens I'm looking for.